Every person conducting, managing or carrying on the business of advertising by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, building or other structures, except billboards, shall pay an annual tax of one hundred dollars.
For the purpose of this section, the word "business" is defined to be, and is construed to mean, the doing or performing of any act, or series of acts, of advertising by means, or in any manner in this section specified, of posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or painting bills or signs to or upon posts, fences, building or other structures, except billboards; provided that nothing in this section shall be construed to affect or apply to any person posting, sticking, tacking, affixing, painting or erecting any business sign on the premises or building occupied and used in the business of such person, and which sign advertises the goods sold, or business conducted on such premises. (Ord. 5368 § 1 (part); May 18, 1993.)